According to a Curbed tipster, Lord Norman Foster is designing a gallery building for 257 Bowery, just North of SANAA's New Museum. Images and commentary @ Curbed View full entry
Images of OMA's first residential tower in Manhattan , as published by the dutch architecture website Architectenweb. UPDATE: Curbed as pooled together all the available renderings of this project. View full entry
It's easy to dismiss Manhattan's new Museum of Arts and Design as a white tombstone scribbled with zigzag slits: a willful graphic posing as architecture. A closer look reveals a work of subtlety and substance. Bloomberg | prev. | AW View full entry
_urb_ features a series of posts on Geomimicry: a a verbal description, history, and current projects. This is related to the recent MVRDV Tirana Rocks project and ensuing discussion here on Archinect. View full entry
HOK’s design for the 2012 Olympic stadium has passed a fresh hurdle after being granted second stage reserved matters planning permission last week. BD | prev. 1 | 2 View full entry
After much controversy, Cologne's city council has voted in favor of building Germany's largest mosque. The opposition of a local far-right group wasn't enough to stop plans that will change the city's historic skyline forever. Der Spiegel View full entry
The 50th anniversary of one of the earliest revolving homes, built in Belgium, is going largely unnoticed, even as energy conservation has become a big issue, half a century later. NYT View full entry
Greek pagans held a ceremony on the site of the Acropolis for the first time in 2,000 years to demonstrate against the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. cbc.ca | previously View full entry
An interesting set of pictures of the inside of the Bird's Nest - a really Piranesian space. (via) View full entry
The Tower of Pisa is being challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning tower. Reuters View full entry
A visit to Clive Wilkinson's new pad. "I wanted to make the house so beautiful ‘that girls would forget my innumerable failings.’ ” NYT View full entry
Jimmy Stamp from Life Without Buildings is discussing the demolition of Modernist Schools in New Orleans...29 of 30 schools built in the 50s have been closed and will soon be demolished unless the city makes changes to its current plan. It would be a shame to lose these astounding buildings, and... View full entry
Grand Olympic building projects more often than not become expensive burdens to host cities once the Games are over. Guardian View full entry
A team of investigators at the National Institute of Standards and Technoloy released a report yesterday that found the cause of the collapse of World Trade Center 7 to be structural fires and not an explosion or a fuel fire from the diesel-powered back-up generators. Whether this puts the... View full entry
Usually the Archinect forum is quick to resolve a building's identity, but member johnszot has us all stumped with his search for an ultra minimalist Japanese museum originally spotted in Archinect's news feed. A free t-shirt to whoever helps him figure it out! seeking ID on japanese museum (?) View full entry
